Punjab Government Just Announced Free Education For Girls in Government Institutes

Punjab Government to Give Free Education to all Girls from Nursery to Ph.D

Punjab Government has Just announced Free Education For Girls in government schools and colleges from Nursery to Doctorate. 

Source: HexaStories.com

Chief Minister of Punjab Captain Amritsar Sing announced on Monday saying 

Free textbooks will be provided to all students in government schools from the next academic session.He added that Nursery and LKG classes will be reintroduced in government schools from next year. Fulfilling another election promise Singh also announced free Wi-FI for 13,000 primary schools and all 48 government colleges.

According to the census of India 2011, the literacy rate in Punjab is 75.84% which is better than the national average of 73.0%. The total number of literates in Punjab is 1,87,07,137. The male literacy rate is 80.44% and female literacy rate is 70.73%.